Denyse O'Leary is chiming in
Did the premier organization of Christians in science really choose to
target fellow Christians instead of materialism in science? Apparently
so.
Somehow, I take much of anything Denyse says with a grain of salt
until the real story has been uncovered.
On 4/23/07, Jack <drsyme@cablespeed.com> wrote:
> This is a quote from one of the respondents named "nullasalus":
> "Honestly, even if TEs disagree with ID, I can't understand why the two
> camps don't try to put aside their admittedly big differences and unite
> against atheistic materialism. It's one of the reasons that I find myself
> more sympathetic to ID on a day to day basis - at least ID proponents engage
> and argue against those philosophies. For TEs, they just don't seem to make
> the radar. "
>
> And this is a point I have made on this list more than once. Ever since I
> have joined the list I have been often surprised at the vitriol that exists
> against YEC here, even though they are our brothers and sisters, and not the
> enemy of Christ like the scientific materialists are.
>
> But lately I have come to realize that this list does not represent the ASA,
> some of those on this list are members, and some are not. It is a mistake
> for Dembski, and Denyse O'Leary especially to use posts from this list as a
> representation of the official position of the ASA on any subject.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Wallace" <wdwllace@sympatico.ca>
> Cc: "ASA list" <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 7:29 PM
> Subject: [asa] American Scientific Affiliation — Whatever happened to its
> mission?
>
>
> > http://www.uncommondescent.com/philosophy/american-scientific-affiliation-whatever-happened-to-its-mission/#more-2280
> >
> > Posting by Wm Dembski on UcD.
> >
> > <quote>
> > I write this post to put into perspective Denyse O'Leary's recent remarks
> > about the "gutting of a spiritual tradition from within" (see here — the
> > relevance of her remarks to the ASA cannot be missed) and to highlight
> > that with the efforts by Dawkins, Dennett, and Harris to ramp up their
> > propaganda for atheism since this letter by Jack Haas was written suggests
> > that the ASA was mistaken in shifting its emphasis away from "the sweeping
> > tide of scientific materialism."
> > </quote>
> >
> > Dave W
> >
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